yard是什么意思

2024-02-21 06:54:17

yard

美[jɑːrd] 英[jɑːd]

n. 码(长度单位)

过去式：yarded 过去分词：yarded 现在分词：yarding 第三人称单数：yards

近义词：court，garden，enclosure，playground，square，

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[C] 院子 enclosed or partly enclosed space near or round a building or group of buildings, often paved
[U] 码 unit of length equal to 3 feet or 0.9144 metre

Noun

a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
the enclosed land around a house or other building;
"it was a small house with almost no yard"
a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings);
"they opened a repair yard on the edge of town"
the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
a tract of land where logs are accumulated
an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

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yard

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在英国买布用码量,不用米。
误 We buy cloth by a yard in England, not by the metre.
误 We buy cloth by yards in England, not by the metre.
正 We buy cloth by the yard in England, not by the metre.
析英语中表示尺度或量度时,习惯用“by the+名词单数”结构。